How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national borders - The Washington Post

Sun Nov 3 02:30:36 UTC 2013

I've never seen a byte claiming any nationality, Internet network topology is not geopolitical (at least a vast percentage of it) and routing policy != politics. When now in a "cloud" world your data may get replicated anywhere, trying to create "islands" (which btw are not immune to eavesdropping) only limits the access and level of service to end users.

The NSA issue (which is not just the NSA or the USG) is a political problem, given the mandate and the funds, any agency in the world will try to sniff data wherever it is located, and sometimes it does not require too much technology or investment, often the weakest link is a badly paid technician or corrupt enough government official, anywhere.

My .02 

-Jorge

> On Nov 2, 2013, at 9:07 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 01:12:54PM -0400,
> Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote 
> a message of 8 lines which said:
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>> The balkanizing of the Net?
>> 
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/11/01/how-anti-nsa-backlash-could-fracture-the-internet-along-national-borders/
> 
> So, to host your content in the servers of NSA providers is freedom
> and hosting it anywhere else is balkanizing the Internet? 
> 
> 